Where: Montagne Noire, France (43.5° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 96.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Neseuretus arenosus trilobite zone, Niveau K Member (Couches du Foulon Formation), Klabava (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Dean gave this as L (Landreyan), but more recent work puts it at the top of K (e.g., Vizcaino, Âlvaro & Lefebvre 2001). From the very top of this formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, concretionary, sandy shale and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. T. Dean. 1966. The lower Ordovician stratigraphy and trilobites of the Landreyan valley and the neighbouring district of the Montagne Noire, southwestern France. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series 12:247-353 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211008: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.06.2020

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